Evil Minions (no, not those ones)

 Inspired years ago by the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. I have always wanted to have an underground volcano base. But first I would have to get some minions.

The great thing about 10mm is that all these silly terrain building dreams can actually be made and the cost of creating the forces is not that much and storage is not such a big issue either.

Here is what I am talking about.

Minions in different coloured uniforms racing to battle.  The underground lair is very open with plenty of space.

First up I needed to get the minions.  I hunted around the Pendraken website until I chanced upon the North Koreans.  They fit perfectly, both in uniform design and in their general background.

The whole team. White for Operations, Red for Engineering, Blue for Transport, and Grey for Security.  A bit of my old 15mm sci-fi terrain and a new NASA launch pad for background.

Engineering in Red are always ready for a fight (ha ha). Even though they will be easy targets.

Transport got to be blue as I did not have any yellow primer. They got two WW2 German DAK staff cars whose drivers wear a cap. Ready to move quickly.

Operations staff. Manning the computers.  To precious to risk in a fire fight so unarmed - if you don't count the nuclear missiles in the background.

Security troops in a unobtrusive grey. Each squad has rifles and a LMG.  Also they get their own car with an automatic cannon in the back for that extra firepower when you need it.
 

All minions need an evil overlord.  Here is Number One and his Number Twos (head of each division), all striking that classic leadership pose!
On the back of the base is a radioman for each division, waiting to transmit orders.

So all I need to do now is create the underground base. Which will take a while as I am painting a whole lot of figures at the moment.

Part of the design process will be to make it multi purpose.  In addition to a launch site I am thinking of a submarine base, underground moon base, nuclear missile site, and post apocalyptic vault. Anyway, it will keep me occupied for a bit planning and then building.

Thanks for reading.